Hopefully enough people will realize these things and ignore being called names, and realize the real reason behind the cynical and self serving criticism directed at the USA by outsiders.
Originally Posted by DSK
Oh, yea? Hope is lost .....
President "Echeverría's brother-in-law, Rubén Zuno Arce, was convicted by a California court in 1992 and sentenced to life in prison for his role as leader of the Guadalajara drug cartel and the murder of a U.S. federal agent seven years earlier.[13] Echeverría repeatedly requested President Carlos Salinas to pressure Washington for the release of Zuno Arce, but to no avail.
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After the defeat of the PRI in the general elections of July 2000, it emerged that
Vicente Fox (president from 2000 to 2006) had met privately with Echeverría at the latter's home in Mexico City numerous times during the former's presidential campaign in 1999 and 2000.[15]
Fox appointed several Echeverría loyalists to top positions in his government, including Adolfo Aguilar Zínser (who headed Echeverría's "Third World University" in the 1970s) as national security advisor and Juan José Bremer (Echeverría's personal secretary) as ambassador to Washington.
"The most controversial was Alejandro Gertz Manero, who had been accused by the Mexican press of bearing responsibility for the suicide of a museum owner in 1972, as Gertz, then working for Echeverría's attorney general, attempted to confiscate his private collection of pre-Hispanic artefacts (Echeverría has a collection of such artefacts).[16] Fox appointed Gertz as chief of the Federal Police."
The make Obaminable and the Clintons look like kindergarten students!
Did you listen to the audio tapes of the "murder" of the Federal agent (DEA agent from the Guadalajara DEA station)? Nauseating!!! And I have a "strong" stomach!
They make ISIS look like pussies.
That little puke-punk he wanted released was running $125 million a month through bank accounts in LA and he was one of many middlemen ... In the mid 1980's that was "real money"!!!!!
The "joke" locally down there about Echeverría is he ONLY STOLE about $500 million when he left office .... so he was a "good guy"!